Sudan has filed an application to launch a lawsuit against the United Arab Emirates before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding allegedly complicity in genocide’s conduct against the Masalit community, the court said Thursday.
Sudan has filed an application to launch a lawsuit against the United Arab Emirates before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding allegedly complicity in genocide’s conduct against the Masalit community, the court said Thursday.
The application is concerned that “since over 2023, the United Arab Emirates government has been adopted, tolerated, taken away, taken, adopted, adopted and adopted by the United Arab Emirates government in connection with the genocide against the Masalit Group of the Republic of Sudan.”
Khartoum said it has filed a lawsuit against alleged violations by the UAE under its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of Genocide, also known as the Genocide Treaty.
It said that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary groups and allied militias committed genocide, murder, theft, rape and forced evacuation, “makes possible” with direct support from the UAE.
Sudan argued that Emiratis is “complaining Masalit’s genocide through the direction and provision of widespread financial, political and military support for the rebel RSF militia.”
An independent investigation conducted last year by the Raul Warrenberg Centre found that there was “clear and compelling evidence” that the paramilitary groups of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allied militias “have committed and committed genocide against Masalit.”
West Darfur was the site of a fierce ethnic-based attack by the RSF and its allied Arab militias on Masarit in 2023.
A report from the Raoul Wallenberg Center found that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that RSF and Allied Militias are responsible for genocide against non-Masalit non-Arab groups, including fur and Zaghawa.”
Among other countries, the UAE was named as “complaining the genocide.”
The Middle Eastern Eye reports on a network of supply lines that exist in funnels and other goods, through the alliance groups and governments of Libya, Chad and the Central African Republic, from the United Arab Emirates to the RSF. The UAE refuses to provide support for RSF.
Sudan and the United Arab Emirates are parties to the Genocide Treaty.
Khartoum has called for the World Court to implement many interim measures, including ordering the UAE to take measures to prevent it. The imposition of measures intended to cause murder and serious harm to Masarit, to deliberately provide conditions to cause physical destruction of the group, and to prevent birth within the group.
It also called for interim measures to order the UAE to prevent armed units backed by the United Arab Emirates from incite genocide directly or publicly.
The UAE is seeking case firing
Emirati officials told Reuters that the UAE is seeking immediate dismissal of the lawsuit, telling the allegation that “has no legal or de facto basis.”
An unnamed official explained that the application is “no more than a sarcastic propaganda stunt intended to distract attention from the established accomplices of the Sudanese military in the widespread atrocities that continue to devastate Sudan and its people.”
The RSF and the Sudanese army have been at war since April 2023. The conflict has driven out more than 10 million people and over 12 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity.